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So You Want to Be a Leader? is designed to be of special interest to those seeking a main or supplemental book to augment their classes/workshops in such diverse areas as teaching leadership, freshman orientation, first-year experience, or college success classes. Another advantage is the book's structure, which consists of numerous short topics and lends itself to classroom and small group discussions.

Refresh Your Spirit brings you four techniques for focusing attention inward, imagining a peaceful natural setting, and listening to a nourishing inner voice.

Are you ready to put your best foot forward in your personal and professional life? Hailed by academia and the media as "The successor to positive thinking", Optimal Thinking is the language of your best self. Now Dr. Rosalene Glickman, the best-selling author of Optimal Thinking, introduces you to the life-optimizing thought process that has replaced the "Think Positive" motto all over the world.

You are the character and feel broken. But you don’t have to continue this way. Instead of doing the same thing and expecting a different result, this audiobook offers an innovative, holistic, and non-traditional approach to happiness. It delivers unique ways to liberate your mind from the unnecessary worrying and suffering. Universal Happiness is possible and it takes one person at a time. You can be that person.

Caught in the middle of a fatal car chase and drug-fueled gun battle, Clive Bradshaw decides to call it quits, leave the city and live a simpler life with his wife Emily and young daughter Amy. Emily drops him off at the foot of Detroit on his last day of work. Clive steps out of the car and into a city on the verge of collapse, rife with corruption, no city services, overworked and underpaid police and fire departments manned by skeleton crews, fighting a hopeless battle against brazen, uncontrolled crime...then the pulses hit. Everything that produces or relies on electricity is destroyed.

The quality of the questions you ask determines the quality of your life. When you ask the best questions of yourself and others, you invite the best answers. You can discover what "the best" means in whatever context you choose. You can also create the best path to your most desired outcomes.

Dr. Susan Jeffers, whose previous books have touched millions throughout the world, provides the tools and concepts that show us how to feel calmer, more in control, and excited about life. With wisdom, humour and clarity, she opens our eyes as to what pulls us down and what lifts us up. End the Struggle and Dance with Life is an invaluable source of insight and practical guidance that inspires us to create a life filled with peace and joy.

Three things make the difference in becoming a leader and being led - product quality, customer service, and productivity. While managers have made great strides in the first two factors, improving productivity remains a major challenge for many organizations. John H. Zenger, a leading authority on organizational change and high performance systems, discusses practical methods to help an organization shed its past, raise its standard for higher performance, and give employees specific tools required to excel in the workplace.

The listener’s relationship with Christ will deepen as Br. Maloney describes how Paul was imbued with the cultures, Jewish and Gentile, of his time and yet transcended both “in Christ.”

The winds of uncertainty are always blowing through the world. If we want to experience peace, we must ourselves become more peaceful. To quote Gandhi, "To change the world, we must first be the change we wish to see." When practiced regularly, meditation becomes a vehicle to enter and calm the heart and soul so our personal corner of the world becomes a more peaceful place. This inner peace then emanates like ripples on a lake toward others. Now is the time to enter the heart and bring peace to the world, starting with your own mind.

Well known author, priest, seminary educator, Rev. Donald Cozzens explains why everyone should speak the truth in love for the betterment of all. Clearly and concisely he shows the importance of the laity, religious and clergy at all levels to express their deepest beliefs and to listen carefully to those who might have a different set of convictions. The Church from his perspective is that it is the last

If you are feeling intense stress about the future, are losing sleep, are experiencing a vague sense of disaster, are blaming everyone else for your anxiety, are overlooking your accomplishments and focusing on your failures, are distorting mistakes and thinking of them as catastrophes, if you are seeing everything in terms of black and white, all or nothing, this presentation can help to set you free and develop a more humane outlook on life and a more realistic wholesome way of existence.

As relationships deepen in healthy encounters, conflicts emerge. This seminar addresses the call to resolve through noticing, analyzing, discerning self-reflection and dialogue. Part One addresses conflicts in intimate relationships. Part Two will focus on the role of teachers, church leaders, and organization leaders in creating a safe space for conflicts to emerge. Some concepts of Parker Palmer will be used to investigate ‘truth’ as truth in its communal dimension.

In two presentations, Dr. Riley addresses the grieving process and describes steps for grief recovery. The use of a loss-graph and relationship-graph foster healing of emotional hurts and other issues that remain from unfinished emotional grieving. Safe exercises for a person to work alone or with a grief partner are described. In these talks, Dr. Riley provides many helpful examples as well as an outline for personal use.

Dr. John Pilch, professor at Georgetown University, utilizing his lifetime of research and years of teaching experience examines the impact of Paul as a world-class agent of change. Paul convinced of his call coming directly from God stepped onto the world stage and became an instrument for change in the religious perspectives of humanity. Change agents need a variety of skills and talents to move families, organizations or cultures in new directions. Paul had all of these plus the unique graces given to him to spread this Good News to lost sheep of Israel.

Your emotional life is a natural and sacred part of you. When you understand your disturbing emotions, you can interpret your responses, make sense of the world around you, and employ them to optimize your life.

The Institute team gets its first item from the secret warehouse, another crystal ball, and the team discovers the secret of the crystal balls.

I wrote this book because I wanted the world to know the story of my special needs son Lloyd C. Darby lll. Affectionately known as DJ, which stands for Darby Junior. When people triumph over their circumstances as my wife and I have, there are usually hidden lessons others can benefit from contained within the events. However, if we don’t share our stories with the world, no one will ever hear about them.

Being friends with some animals can be very dangerous, but Dave is the kind of person that actually knows what the animals are thinking and can magically relate to them. How many animal friends will Dave make? This story describes the love and friendships that a young boy enjoys with his animal friends. How being kind to each other makes love for animals and animals' love for human beings so much powerful and magical.

Rescuing a Broken America explains why Americans are so divided, how the destruction of liberty occurred, who is behind it, and how we can stop this destruction of our freedoms. Over the past 100 years, global forces have actively worked to change the worldview of Americans and create what they now call "global governance". Indoctrinated unknowingly, we have moved from a liberty and constitutionally focused worldview to that of government control of the individual. There is hope.